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An Analytical Model for a QoS Capable Cluster Interconnect

Proceedings of International Conference on Measurement, Modeling and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (MMB)

The growing use of clusters in diverse applications, many of which have real-time constraints, requires Quality-of-Service (QoS) support from the underlying cluster interconnect. In this paper, we present an analytical model for a wormhole-switched router with QoS provisioning. In particular, the model captures message blocking due to wormhole switching and bandwidth sharing due to a rate-based scheduling mechanism. Average message latency for di erent trac classes is computed using the model. We evaluate a 16-port router and hypercubes of di erent dimensions with a mixed workload of real-time and best-e ort trac. Comparison with the simulation results shows that the single router and the network models are quite accurate in providing the performance estimates.

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